CanManDan

One more question on the domicile requirements. From your personal experience, what documents did you and you husband submit for proof? we are thinking: - wife’s 3 months of bank, investment, and car lease statements - US phone bill - we will try to get her state license back before the interview - will be living with her parents for a bit so there won’t be any lease documents. Would a notarized letter from her parents stating we will be living with them help? thank you again

Thank you for your response. This aligns with what everyone is saying.. except my lawyer lol. we will get a joint sponsor documents submitted before the interview. With or without our lawyer’s approval.

Would they not want to have the joint sponsor documents submitted before the interview? Would the officer review it on the spot? I feel like I might get a 221g and be asked to submit it on the website.

Thank you for your reply. I agree, everything I’ve heard since following others in the similar situation is saying the same, Montreal is pretty strict and having a joint sponsor would only help the case. I am not sure why my lawyer just doesn’t want to go that route. We really don’t want to go into AP and delay our case any further. yes, my wife filed her 2023 taxes, where she physically worked. Her income from that year is what we had originally submitted and it was accepted by NVC and we got DQ’ed with it. for 2024, she filed her US taxes but all her income was in Canada. So she submitted it as a foreign income. We will be attaching this as an additional document before the interview. This shows her income is not sufficient since she only worked 3 months that year. for 2025, she is currently working in Canada again and can provide paystubs, employment letter, etc but yeah it’s all in Canada which is what we are worried as it is not a US income. thanks again!

Hello everyone. First post so apologies if I didn’t follow steps. Sponsor, my wife is living in Canada with me (beneficiary) since late 2023. We got DQ’ed in March. We submitted 2023 US tax returns for her and it was all accepted. She had made enough in the first half of the year. Now we are prepping for the interview in Montreal in October. My wife worked in Canada only for only 3 months that year and filed her 2024 US taxes and noted the foreign earned income. However, that income is lower than the required threshold. Our lawyer is saying she, the sponsor, can show her Canadian income from 2025 current year (she made more than enough to satisfy the threshold) by showing the paystubs, and an employment letter. But her employment will cease to exist when I, the beneficiary, gets approved. When we told this to our lawyer, the lawyer says they can use my (the beneficiary’s ) income as an additional income to satisfy. The thing is, I, the beneficiary, only have a contingent offer letter from my current employer (US employer but I am contracted through a middle party Canadian company, so I don’t technically work for the US employer yet until I am in US) that I will be starting with them after I am approved and get my spousal visa. So our lawyer is basically insisting that my spouse’s 2025 Canadian paystubs plus my, beneficiary’s, contingent offer letter from the US employer should be able to satisfy the consulate ? We want to be safe and A) inform the consulate that we’re adding a joint sponsor and B) add documents for a joint sponsor ( my spouse’s father) under the additional information section in CEAC before the interview. Thoughts ? Are we overthinking or wouldn’t having a joint sponsor documents be the safer option before the interview? Sorry for the long post but thanks in advance.